Befriending Your Mind & Emotions

Befriending Your Mind & Emotions: The Essential Guide to Mindfulness Practice is a practical and insightful online course designed to help you build a lasting mindfulness practice to create greater awareness, emotional balance, and calm in your everyday life.

Taught by renowned mindfulness expert Diana Winston, this course offers a step-by-step approach to integrating mindfulness into your daily life—whether you’re navigating stress, managing difficult emotions, or simply looking to bring more presence and joy to your everyday experiences.

Through engaging teachings and guided practices, you’ll develop the skills to calm your mind, work skillfully with thoughts and emotions, and build a sustainable mindfulness practice. Whether you’re new to mindfulness or seeking to enrich your meditation routine, this course provides the foundation and essential practices to help you live with more clarity, kindness, and ease.

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About Diana Winston

Diana Winston is the director of UCLA Mindful, the mindfulness education center of UCLA Health, and the author of The Little Book of Being: Practices and Guidance for Uncovering Your Natural Awareness. A sought-after speaker, Diana has been called by the Los Angeles Times “one of the nation’s best-known teachers of mindfulness” and currently consults on mindfulness initiatives worldwide.

She has taught mindfulness since 1993 in a variety of settings including hospitals, universities, corporations, nonprofits, and schools in the US and Asia. During her 17-year tenure at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center, Diana developed the evidence-based Mindful Awareness Practices (MAPS) curriculum and the Training in Mindfulness Facilitation program which trained more than 500 mindfulness teachers worldwide. She was a founding board member of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, Bloomberg, the Los Angeles Times, CNN.com, and in and in a variety of magazines, books, and journals. She is also the author of Wide Awake: A Buddhist Guide for Teens, Glimpses of Being, and the co-author, with Susan Smalley PhD, of Fully Present: The Science, Art and Practice of Mindfulness, and has published numerous articles on mindfulness.

She is considered one of the early founders of meditation programs and retreats for youth. Diana’s meditations are listened to worldwide through the UCLA Mindful, Happier, and Waking Up Apps and her meditations have become a feature of the California governor’s mental health website.

Since 2004, Diana has taught retreats at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Northern California. She has been practicing mindfulness meditation since 1989, including a year as a Buddhist nun in Burma. She is a graduate of Brown University. Currently, Diana’s most challenging and rewarding practice involves trying to mindfully parent her teenage daughter.